Near miss...Cards that you've personally taken out of existence...

[atx840]

Fathers childhood near complete set of 52 topps (with all the big ones) mostly PSA graded. While on vacation basement flooded with sewage, hundreds of comics, collectable vinyl records sat in foot deep sludge for a week. Luckily the night before we left I moved his cards off the floor and hid them in a closet. I am sure the slabs would have protected them but it would have been sh!tty.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by atx840

Fathers childhood near complete set of 52 topps (with all the big ones) mostly PSA graded. While on vacation basement flooded with sewage, hundreds of comics, collectable vinyl records sat in foot deep sludge for a week. Luckily the night before we left I moved his cards off the floor and hid them in a closet. I am sure the slabs would have protected them but it would have been sh!tty.

WoW.......I didn't know that slabbed cards are waterproof. Do you know this for sure??? Could I take a high end big ticket card that has been slabbed and submerge it????

[steve B]

The ones from SGC aren't completely waterproof. I specifically asked if there was any venting for the acid vapors from more acidic cards to escape. They said they weren't sure if it was enough venting, but that theirs weren't completely sealed. I'm fairly sure most PSA slabs aren't completely watertight either. Not sure about Becketts.


A couple years ago a friend of mine gave me an obak he'd found. It was barely a card, more a collection of creases held together in spots by some ink. I set it down either while sorting stuff inhis garage or somewhere here at home, and haven't seen it since.
I don't count the cards I wrecked as a kid. Standups made from 78 Topps, a few suncatcher type things made from cards stuck to tape with the cardboard soaked off....stuff like that.

[rp12367]

Originally Posted by steve B

The ones from SGC aren't completely waterproof. I specifically asked if there was any venting for the acid vapors from more acidic cards to escape. They said they weren't sure if it was enough venting, but that theirs weren't completely sealed. I'm fairly sure most PSA slabs aren't completely watertight either. Not sure about Becketts. .

I believe I read or heard somewhere that some cards got caught in a flood and all the SGC/PSA got destoryed but BVG were all fine. Might have been in Hurricane Katrina don't remember exact details.

[Zach Wheat]

I bought a nice Cy Young T206 from a board member. I received the package at work along with several other cards that day. Somehow I managed to throw away the card with the packaging material. I thought it was set aside with the other cards. I realized it after hours and searched & searched for the card. It was never to be seen from again. The card exists for 100 years but get it in my hands for more than a couple minutes and it is gone forever.

I am much more careful now when I open packages. Lesson learned the hard way.

MWheat

[Davids]

Glad to hear other people have done dumb things. I don't collect basketball cards but always wanted a tall boy of Oscar Robertson. So, so one day bid on and won a real nice one on ebay. As I am in Canada and so was the seller, it took about a month with me checking daily. Finally it came and I grabbed it from the postlady on my way to the office along with my other mail. Normally I'd wait but had to open it and I was really happy. I also received some other cards but didn't open them right away. I put Oscar back in his envelope for "safe keeping". That night I gleefully opened the rest and was very pleased with my new treasures. As always, I destroy the envelopes,customs disclosures etc, by cutting them as I prefer that my neighbours (and the garbage guys) not know that I collect. You guessed it, cut right through the Big O and his crummy semi rigid sleeve (which I normally replace and throw out) along with everything else. He was in almost 4 perfect squares! Aaagh!

[almostdone]

My story is similar but different as well. The is a young collector that loves old stuff but dosn't like computers or the internet (whatever). I help him find the cards he wants for a good price and then buy them thorough my ebay account. He pays me the cash and everyone is happy.
About a year and a half ago he descided he wanted a "nicer" and more valuble card. After much thought he chose to go for a 1956 Topps Mantle in a nice graded condition. The most he had paid for anything up this point was maybe $100 bucks).
Because of his limited funds and potential price of the card he would pay me in advance in instalments. When he saved up enough money I ended up looking and purchasing the card for him.
Unfortunatly along the way I lost all of the cash for this card of his and had to replace it myself. Not exactly destroying a card but put my own collecting on hold for a bit.
Stupid!
Drew

[Tomman1961]

In 1988 me and my future wife were preping cards for my first show,to make a few bucks to help pay for the house we bought a few days before.We were in my bedroom at my parent's house laying the cards out. I was called to the phone in the kitchen.My fiance decides to make popcorn in the kitchen.So we both leave the room. When we come back,the (5) 1973 Topps EX-MT cards that we were grading and putting into sleeves were no where to be found.We searched that house all night.When I moved out of that house,my bedroom was literally empty.I even took the floor molding off the wall to look for those cards. My parents sold the house 12years later.Still no Willie. So I am single handedly responsible for lowering the supply of 1973 Topps Mays by 5 cards.